Hacker News: namuol

New comment by namuol in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

namuol — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 02:43:48 +0000

> sample solutions from the model with certain temperature and truncation configurations, then fine-tune on those samples with standard supervised fine-tuning

It’s all moonspeak to me. I tried reading other comments that explain this and they all sounded different or contradictory. I’ve studied ML as a hobby years ago but this was before the LLM explosion. Guess I need to start over again?

New comment by namuol in "RAM kits are now sold with one fake RAM stick alongside a real one"

namuol — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 05:05:44 +0000

Apropos to nothing, PC Builder Simulator on Steam costs $19.99 USD and it requires a Windows machine with just 4GB RAM and a GPU with 2GB.

New comment by namuol in "LLMs work best when the user defines their acceptance criteria first"

namuol — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 22:35:40 +0000

These LLM prompting tip articles write themselves if you just take the last decade of project management articles and replace “IC” with “agent”.

New comment by namuol in "Our Agreement with the Department of War"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:32:12 +0000

The timing of the release and the phrasing used in the headline: Woof.

New comment by namuol in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 21:30:48 +0000

It’s high time for regime change in the US.

New comment by namuol in "PCB Tracer"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:25:56 +0000

Hey wait, maybe you are my (our?) mom after all! Sure seems like it anyway. You seem to think you’re old enough to be.

Do you just not have any other ways of insulting people, or are you confused about the difference between age and maturity?

New comment by namuol in "PCB Tracer"

namuol — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 20:16:52 +0000

I support baseline browsers unless it’s not feasible otherwise. Sometimes things just aren’t possible in certain browsers. It’s expensive and difficult to design and implement things that fail gracefully. I’m not actually spiteful towards Firefox or its users; I _am_ spiteful toward other developers who feel they are entitled to leaving hostile comments for free hobby projects that don’t support their browser of choice for frankly technical reasons.

I was being facetious for rhetorical purposes. The OP I was replying to was unfairly hostile. I will also hazard a guess that they don’t have much experience writing sophisticated software for browsers.

I responded with the same sort of hostility to make my point that you’re not going to win “hearts and minds” for your cause by insulting developers for relying on browser standards that aren’t yet baseline. My point is that I am not persuaded by hostility, and I suspect other developers aren’t either. Users like this give their browser of choice a bad reputation when they make it part of their hostile identity.

New comment by namuol in "PCB Tracer"

namuol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:37:13 +0000

(I am not the app author, just a sympathizer)

I didn’t realize spite for users was a good reason for me to not bother with Firefox support in my web apps, thank you for enlightening me

New comment by namuol in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

namuol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:11:19 +0000

That’s still $100B unaccounted for, and I’m pretty sure Amazon would expect fair treatment if other investors get a bailout. More likely, OpenAI is the one to receive the bailout, likely at the behest of the bigger investors, Amazon included.

New comment by namuol in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

namuol — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 21:02:52 +0000

Hard not to hear the word “bailout” in my head when I see this many billions being tossed around.

New comment by namuol in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

namuol — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 02:28:17 +0000

> To the extent that it's just for fun, it's not an advance.

The features which are being exploited to implement this are indeed advances.

> If I didn't like a language and people offered an even worse to use replacement I'd be justified in having distaste for it!

You’re missing my point. Nobody is actually suggesting replacing JS with CSS, but many new CSS features eliminate the need to use JS to accomplish what you need in terms of behavior or style. Nobody is seriously suggesting CSS is a _replacement_ for JS, it’s just a better solution for certain common things on the web.

New comment by namuol in "I'm helping my dog vibe code games"

namuol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:40:08 +0000

Nobody cared when I taught my roulette wheel to vibe code :/

New comment by namuol in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

namuol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:37:16 +0000

Predictably, all the same people who bemoan JS ubiquity feel the need to express their distaste for advances in CSS in this thread. Nobody is actually doing stuff like this in real applications, it’s just a demo, for fun.

I get the feeling some people just hate the web.

New comment by namuol in "Show HN: X86CSS – An x86 CPU emulator written in CSS"

namuol — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 17:30:59 +0000

Less JavaScript is a bad thing now?

New comment by namuol in "Hitler's Greenland Obsession"

namuol — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:50:59 +0000

Aaand it’s flagged.

New comment by namuol in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

namuol — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:49:50 +0000

Don’t forget @layer!

New comment by namuol in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

namuol — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 04:47:31 +0000

I’m a web developer by trade. I read about it. Sorry?

New comment by namuol in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

namuol — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 07:00:23 +0000

Components are the tool you’re looking for. For the rest there’s CSS variables. Soon we may have @mixin.

New comment by namuol in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

namuol — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:58:15 +0000

You can try to rely on conventions across projects, sure. It doesn’t work well.

New comment by namuol in "Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015"

namuol — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 06:57:19 +0000

No. Tailwind is a way of writing css, not a convention. By “your” convention I’m referring to the problems with the cascade, ie naming classes and so on. I’m not saying tailwind is the only other way. There are many ways to write CSS but doing it with something bespoke for your situation is usually a bad idea.